Daniel L. Moody from University of Twente gave a talk (and a full fledged tutorial) at OMG technical meeting in Reston, VA, on the principles for designing effective diagramming notations. His talk had this overall design:(click to enlarge)Daniel Moody wrote a famous paper on IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering titled:The “Physics” of Notations: Toward a … Continue reading Daniel Moody on "Designing diagramming notations that work": the physics of notations
API4KB is an initiative within OMG that aims at defining a standard programming interface for knowledge bases. API4KB has been presented at OMG ADTF and the activities on this are starting now. There is a API4KB RFP currently open and some resources are available on the API4KB wiki. LOI and voting list are open until … Continue reading A standard API for Knowledge Bases (API4KB)
In my life, I've always been craving for travels, visiting places, experiencing arts and seeing new things. I never appreciated those kinds of holidays where you just sit and do nothing, I liked doing trips and sightseeing, I liked coming back from holidays more tired than then I left. Still, we know life is always … Continue reading An unexpected journey, and not Bilbo’s one
After a semester in teaching model driven software engineering in my Advanced Software Engineering course at Politecnico, I feel the urgency of echoing once again a few words about the reason of models, inspired also from some content in our last book on Model-driven Software Development, or MDSE (see more here or on www.mdse-book.com).By the way, … Continue reading Reason and meaning of (top) models
The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is now one step closer to standardization by Object Management Group (OMG). On February 18 the revised version of the IFML specification has been submitted to OMG by a consortium lead by WebRatio and comprising also Fujitsu, Model Driven Solutions, Softeam, and Thales.The new submission has improved a lot … Continue reading IFML on its way towards OMG standardization
It's with great pleasure that I announce my invited post on the modeling-languages.com blog, curated by Jordi Cabot.First, I'm glad he invited me. Second, I'm happy that he asked for a post on Social-enabled Web application modeling.I mean, we all see how social technologies are transforming our life. And yet, the modeling community and the software … Continue reading My invited post on Modeling Social Web Apps (on www.modeling-languages.com)
I think we are all familiar with the Function Point concept, used for evaluation of the size of a software application in terms of functional features. We are all well aware of the limits of this unit of measure, to the point that it is considered rather obsolete in the software engineering community: subjectivity is … Continue reading Automated Function Point (AFP) adopted as a standard by OMG
It's with great pleasure that I can announce that the model-driven approach proposed by WebRatio has won the Special Mention Award within the Global Awards for Excellence in BPM and Workflow, promoted by WfMC, bpm.com, and Future Strategies.You can read the full announcement here and you can follow the webinar of the award ceremony on SlideShare … Continue reading Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow – by Keith Swenson and Nathaniel Palmer
Questo workshop si occupa di presentare le tecniche moderne di progettazione e deployment di processi di business a livello enterprise, sfruttando le potenzialità degli approcci model-driven (MDE - Model Driven Engineering) e le piattaforme basate su cloud.Il workshop mostra come sia possibile affrontare con tecniche agili le problematiche di definizione e ristrutturazione di processi aziendali, … Continue reading BPM and Cloud, the ideal partners. SMAU 2012 presentation
Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice. See more on www.mdse-book.com. I'm really proud to announce that a huge joint effort with Jordi Cabot and Manuel Wimmer has finnally reached his end. Our new book on model-driven software engineering, on which we have been working for almost one year, is finally published! The book is titled Model-Driven Software … Continue reading My new book on Model-Driven Software Engineering
